I don’t. I just export to PDF if I need them to see formatting the same.

I will use whatever they will provide me. If i am to use Microsoft products, so be it. Not only that, but I don’t give a flying fuck for the company’s data i work for. They asked for it 🙃

Thanks to the behaviour of the American Government the past year, it has become really easy. Everybody suddenly understand and respect the argument of boycotting american products and software.

I was asked by a friend of the family why I had to “mod” everything, “You make it all so it doesn’t work right!”

…because “working right” in this day and age is a privacy nightmare, a security disaster, and relinquishing your rights, duh! Then I asked her how much the lawyer cost to understand what she’s agreeing to in all the EULAs of services she’s signed up for just to make things “work right”.

Depends on how long you’ve been working. After some amount of time like a year or two you can drop it into a conversation when helping a person “oh, I actually use libre office so I’m not sure where MS put that, let me check” and if they want more info they’ll ask. Sometimes they might be surprised that you can actually do this stuff on Linux.

Do NOT tell anybody in the office that you use Libre Office.
If you do, you will be blamed for every problem anyone encounters.

Font size looks incorrect - Carl’s fault for using libre office to edit the file (even though you never worked on that project at all).

Paper jamb in the printer - Carl’s fault for printing a document from that weird libre office program.

I got fired for saying something racist on twitter - Carl’s fault for using that weirdo libre shit.

I practically never need to. I’ll find a way to make things work one way or another.

For work, I have a work computer with a build on it provided by work.

If your work is letting/having you use something different, then explanations shouldn’t be needed. If youre doing this on your own, that may be a problem.

You don’t. Enjoy better, faster and more effective software and laugh when their shot breaks.

I don’t owe my co-workers any explanation.

Does this actually cause compatibility issues? If not, no need to explain

I use it because it works for me.

The better question asked is:

How do they explain to you that they don’t?

“Hey, I never liked Office 365, Microsoft as a company and all the Cloud shenanigans… And have you noticed how their products all become shittier and more invasive by the day? All while they increase subscription price each year now to finance all the AI stuff I rarely use? I’m a long-term fan of this other product, called XYZ which is just better in every aspect. No offense. If you want me to send you a link…”

(Edit: It’ll become easier after a while. At some point they all know you’re a Linux nerd and disassembled your wifi router at home, dishwasher… To get rid of proprietary spy components. And people will deliberately decide to listen to your opinion and lengthy rant, or make an effort to not bring up the topic 😆 At that point, you’re relatively free to speak your mind… Just read the room a bit. The goal isn’t to annoy people.)

I don’t.